Dear Diary,

yesterday I heard an amazing talk by Eva Philippe and I will get back to that, as well as related questions I am thinking about with Sergey Avvakumov (who is on the market btw., though I do not expect trouble there cause he is doing great things) and Mark Berezovik (who I got to Jerusalem to finish his masters in exile. Study in exile. Interesting that we do that again).

Anyway, dear diary, it reminded me of something many years in the future.

You see, in 35 years I am going to sit my second grandchild on my lap. The bright one. She was always the bright one. So many questions.

And so, after helping my first, my grandson, build a gauntlet for the mutated squirrel warriors, I will sit her down. Spit the iodine tablet into the bucket and sigh, thinking about the best advice. She is starting to get interested in relationships, and she is asking me.

“Grandpa, I want to ask about pairings”

she begins, and my bioengineered squidheart sinks. Not that one.

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